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#12 Deger Turan on all things forecasting
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Deger Turan is the CEO of forecasting platform Metaculus and president of the AI Objectives Institute. In this episode, we discuss how forecasting can be used to help humanity coordinate around reducing existential risks, Deger's advice for aspiring forecasters, the future of using AI for forecasting and more! Enter Metaculus's Q3 AI Forecasting Be…
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#11 Katja Grace on the AI Impacts survey, the case for slowing down AI & arguments for and against x-risk
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Katja Grace is the co-founder of AI Impacts, a non-profit focused on answering key questions about the future trajectory of AI development, which is best known for conducting the world's largest survey of machine learning researchers. We talked about the most interesting results from the survey, Katja's views on whether we should slow down AI progr…
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#10 Nathan Labenz on the current AI state-of-the-art, the Red Team in Public project, reasons for hope on AI x-risk & more
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Nathan Labenz is the founder of AI content-generation platform Waymark and host of The Cognitive Revolution Podcast, who now works full-time on tracking and analysing developments in AI. We chatted about where we currently stand with state-of-art AI capabilities, whether we should be advocating for a pause on scaling frontier models, Nathan's Red T…
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#9 Sneha Revanur on founding Encode Justice, California's SB-1047, and youth advocacy for safe AI development
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Sheha Revanur is a the founder of Encode Justice, an international, youth-led network campaigning for the responsible development of AI, which was among the sponsors of California's proposed AI bill SB-1047. We chatted about why Sheha founded Encode Justice, the importance of youth advocacy in AI safety, and what the movement can learn from climate…
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#8 Nathan Young on forecasting, AI risk & regulation, and how not to lose your mind on Twitter
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Nathan Young is a forecaster, software developer and tentative AI optimist. In this episode, we discussed how Nathan approaches forecasting, why his p(doom) is 2-9%, whether we should pause AGI research, and more! Follow Nathan on Twitter: Nathan 🔍 (@NathanpmYoung) / X (twitter.com) Nathan's substack: Predictive Text | Nathan Young | Substack My Tw…
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#7 Noah Topper helps me understand Eliezer Yudkowsky
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A while back, my self-confessed inability to fully comprehend the writings of Eliezer Yudkowsky elicited the sympathy of the author himself. In an attempt to more completely understand why AI is going to kill us all, I enlisted the help of Noah Topper, recent Computer Science Masters graduate and long-time EY fan, to help me break down A List of Le…
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#6 Holly Elmore on pausing AI, protesting, warning shots & more
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Holly Elmore is an AI pause advocate and Executive Director of PauseAI US. We chatted about the case for pausing AI, her experience of organising protests against frontier AGI research, the danger of relying on warning shots, the prospect of techno-utopia, possible risks of pausing and more! Follow Holly on Twitter: Holly ⏸️ Elmore (@ilex_ulmus) / …
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#5 Joep Meindertsma on founding PauseAI and strategies for communicating AI risk
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In this episode, I talked with Joep Meindertsma, founder of PauseAI, about how he discovered AI safety, the emotional experience of internalising existential risks, strategies for communicating AI risk, his assessment of recent AI policy developments and more! Find out more about PauseAI at www.pauseai.info…
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#4 Émile P. Torres and I discuss where we agree and disagree on AI safety
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Émile P. Torres is a philosopher and historian known for their research on the history and ethical implications of human extinction. They are also an outspoken critic of Effective Altruism, longtermism and the AI safety movement. In this episode, we chatted about why Émile opposes both the 'doomer' and accelerationist factions, and identified some …
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#3 Darren McKee on explaining AI risk to the public & navigating the AI safety debate
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Darren McKee is an author, speaker and policy advisor who has recently penned a beginner-friendly introduction to AI Safety named Uncontrollable: The Threat of Artificial Superintelligence and the Race to Save the World. We chatted about the best arguments for worrying about AI, responses to common objections, how to navigate the online AI safety s…
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#2 Akash Wasil on transitioning into AI safety & promising proposals for AI governance
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Akash is an AI policy researcher working on ways to reduce global security risks from advanced AI. He has worked at the Center for AI Safety, Center for AI Policy, and Control AI. Before getting involved in AI safety, he was a PhD student studying technology & mental health at the University of Pennsylvania. We chatted about why he decided to work …
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#1 Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander argue about moral realism while I smile and nod
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In this inaugural episode of Consistently Candid, Aaron Bergman and Max Alexander each try to convince me of their position on moral realism, and I settle the issue once and for all. Featuring occasional interjections from the sat-nav in the Uber Aaron was taking at the time.My Twitter: https://twitter.com/littIeramblings Max's Twitter: https://twi…
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